karin is back!!

i, on the other hand, have been back for bout a month and still don't have a job. blurgh. but i'm being really picky and passive bout this jobsearching so it's kind of my fault.

since the last time i was back, we got new channels on scv (i still call it scv), cincluding TV5Monde and some deutsche and chinese channels. this is good, cos now i can practice listening to french everyday without moving my ass frm the sofa. haha.

another thing is tt mama has moved into my room (so technically it's not mine anymore) and zehzeh, sera and i share zehzeh's rm (technically not hers anymore); it looks like a dormitory.. haha 3 single beds side by side with 3 matching dressing tables in front. thank God for big hdb bedrooms (as opposed to condo bedrms).

the other day mama was watching some cantonese talkshow on the living rm tv and i just sat there trying to guess what was going on. then mama said i could change channel so i switched to le journal on tvmonde5 and then it was her turn to sit there and figure out the news. i just thought that whole incident was quite cute.

i never realised this until elaine (cousin frm london) mentioned it the last time we were in singapore at the same time: at the dinner table you can hear more than 2 languages being spoken at the same time. mummy speaks to mama in hokkien and mama speaks to uncle jeffrey in malay, and zehzeh and i speak english to mummy and uncle jeffrey and broken mandarin to mama. sera speaks to us in english but to mama in cantonese. seriously, how many places in the world can you do this? maybe it's just the language craze in me, but i really really like being round so many languages and understanding most of them; i think it's so enriching. i guess we all kindof take it for granted here.

you know, i haven't listened to my winamp since i got back. cos now i have no room and therefore nowhere to plug in my speakers so tt it won't disturb anyone.

ive got some sort of allergy since i got back. some sinus thing. ugh stupid nose.